Qantas Wins Tahiti Route Rights Under New Agreement
Senator Paltridge announced Australia and France reached a new air-route agreement allowing Qantas to operate round-the-world flights through Tahiti. The pact adjusts the prior imbalance with Air France and sets provisional routes via Sydney Noumea and Tahiti, with possible expansion to North or South America and London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qantas
Tahiti
Paltridge
France
TAI
Melbourne
Sydney
Air France
Los Angeles
Sea Partridge
Noumea
North
South America
London
Partridge
New Defence Course Opens for Civil Protection
A new civil defence course will start next Wednesday night at the civil defence headquarters in Bunda Street Canberra. AGT controller Mr. R Bale said the course can take 30 participants and will run for three Wednesday nights covering nuclear explosion threats blackouts heat fallout and civil defence organisation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AGT
Civil Defence
R. Bale
Bunda Street
A.C.T
Cooma Protest Over Bridge Delay Delays Split Town
Cooma council protests NSW Main Roads over Sharp Street bridge delay that has kept the structure closed since Easter. North eastern approaches suffer financially. council orders by passes around the bridge and will charge the work to the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooma
N.S.W. Department of Main Roads
Sharp Street
J. Whitehead
Ned Kelly to Feature in Two Films
Melbourne announces Eltham Films plans a two hour feature Man of Iron about the Ned Kelly gang's last 24 hours with £50,000 budget and £22,000 in hand shooting to begin this spring. An overseas company also plans a Ned Kelly film with Albert Finney in the title role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eltham Films
Ned Kelly
Albert Finney
Canberra fires tally shows year with major blaze at Bartholomews
Canberra Fire Brigade reports 304 fires in the year to June 30 with 128 grass and scrub fires, 56 building fires, 33 chimneys, 48 electrical faults, 24 vehicle blazes, 15 heating unit fires, and 30 misc. A February 10 inferno gutted Roger Bartholomew's menswear store. Two brigades handled 25 special calls including petrol washing and aiding police during lockout incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canberra
Department of the Interior
Roger Bartholomew
Schoolboy with typewriter aids grades at centre
Nineteen year old John Hickman cannot write and uses a small wooden rod to tap keys, passing five Leaving subjects last year. He plans to continue tapping and studying until university graduation at Adelaide Boys High School and the centre's senior study in the afternoon. He majors in mathematics and led a chess activity with the centre Scout troop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hickman
Sents
John
Ashford House
Adelaide
Scoul
Also Mentioned on This Page
Adelaide University
Monaro
Civic Centre
Marcus Clark & CO. Limited
Civic É Centre
Canberra Dry Cleaners Ltd
Enr
Cooyong and
Lonsdale Streets
Braddon, A.C.T
Australia
Lennock Motors
Hillman Sedan
Lonsdale Street
Braddon
FIAT
Vanguard
Morris
M.G.A
Vanguard & Utility
Volkswagen
Falcon
Hillman California
Austin and
DODGE
Austin Healey Sports
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!